My infantile little mean streak

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When you live in a country in which a language is used that very few people outside that country are able to understand and speak it can be fun to teach people from other parts of the world non existing jibberish. There are always those who like to show off their skills when it comes to a certain knowledge of obscure languages and it can be funny when you hear them talk total rubbish.

Some time ago I watched a BBC program called 'Have I got News for You' or something. One of the regulars of that program who's name I can't remember (the leprachaun) obviously tought he could schock the world by using a dutch word, I suspect he was convinced that it was a nasty dutch curse word. The funny thing was that it was complete nonsense. I live in Holland and I had no idea what he was talking about. The other particpants of that show seemed quite impressed since they didn't have any knowledge of the dutch language either. It amuses me even more when something like that happens on television.

I have corrected my mistake in time but the name of the program is: Have I got News for you or Have I got old News for You or else Have I got ancient News for You.

That sounds like the opposite of a certain Monty Python sketch.

A well dressed foriegn man approches strangers in London and speaks in halting English while gazing at a little book, and says things like "eef I were to tell you you had a beeyoutiful body would you hold it against me?" Gets arrested. And then it transpires that his phrasebook was to blame for translating phrases like "which way is railway station?" into things like "can I please feel your knockers?"

Ian Hislop the the leprachaun? Lol.